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You don’t need permission to protest, but you do generally need one to march. In this case, since the protesters were physically obstructing a freeway, on which
by devilbunny 3y ago
You don’t need permission to protest, but you do generally need one to march. In this case, since the protesters were physically obstructing a freeway, on which pedestrians are usually legally banned, a march permit would never have been issued. I suspect that’s part of the police rationale behind not giving orders to disperse. You might end up with a riotous crowd semi-spontaneously on a city street, so reading the Riot Act and ordering them to leave is appropriate. Everyone in this protest already broke the law by walking onto a freeway.
Agreed that the laser user should face stiff penalties. Federal ones. You want to protest violently, that’s one thing. You want to endanger people who just happen to live within a mile of you by blinding pilots? That should hurt a lot more than spending a night or two in jail.
- scohesc 3y agoGenuinely asking - don't modern helicopters have the ability to hover or go on autopilot in some capacity, or am I (likely) very _very_ ignorant when it comes to helicopters? I agree with you that the person shining lasers into helicopters and blinding pilots causing potential permanent eye damage should face stiffer penalties.
- 93po 3y agoDoesn’t really matter, you never know when flying when you’ll need to react to an emergency situation, which you very much need eyesight for. If you lost vision during an engine out in a helicopter you’d surely die
- 20after4 3y agoDepends on the design of the helicopter. They are, in general, extremely difficult to control. About helicopter autopilots, I'm not qualified to answer so: https://www.quora.com/Do-helicopters-have-autopilot https://www.quora.com/Do-helicopters-have-autopilot